WORLD (MT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

1:00 pm

Life On Fire"The Surprise Salmon"
In Alaska, the fresh water that feeds the rivers is snowmelt from North America's highest mountains and most active volcanoes. Time and again, they erupt and poison the rivers. Scientists have only just begun to piece together what might have happened nearly 2,000 years ago, when one race of salmon faced the death of their natal river and were forced back to the open ocean on an exceptional adventure. D

2:00 pm

Outdoor Idaho"Trip to the Moon"
One early traveler called it the strangest 75 square miles in North America. Characterized by one of the only continental hot spots in the world, Craters of the Moon encompasses three quarters of a million acres of lava flows, sagebrush, rolling hills... and a few surprises. Part of it is managed by the National Park Service, as a national monument. And it may be as close as any of us will ever come to a trip to the moon.G

2:30 pm

Dialogue"Annette Gordon-Reed"
The historian speaks with host Marcia Franklin during the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. Gordon-Reed won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book on Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings slave family, which he owned.G

NOVA"Ice Age Death Trap"
Contractors in late 2010, while preparing the ground for a new dam at a reservoir near Aspen, Colorado, uncover one of the largest collections of ice age bones found in one place. In May 2011, 37 experts from 18 institutions, other workers and volunteers, unearth more than 4,800 fossils and identify 20 different vertebrate animals, including American mastodon, giant bison, ground sloths, Columbian mammoths, deer, a horse and an ancient camel.G

6:00 pm

Life On Fire"The Surprise Salmon"
In Alaska, the fresh water that feeds the rivers is snowmelt from North America's highest mountains and most active volcanoes. Time and again, they erupt and poison the rivers. Scientists have only just begun to piece together what might have happened nearly 2,000 years ago, when one race of salmon faced the death of their natal river and were forced back to the open ocean on an exceptional adventure. D

7:00 pm

Secrets of the Dead"Deadliest Battle"
Newly-released Russian archive documents, detailed eye-witness accounts by survivors on both sides and commentary from Nikita Krushchev's son reveal a different version of the World War II Battle of Stalingrad than normally recounted. The "strategic retreat" by Russian forces in the face of German advances is retold against the background of newly-uncovered "fight-to-the-death" orders from Stalin.G

Life On Fire"The Surprise Salmon"
In Alaska, the fresh water that feeds the rivers is snowmelt from North America's highest mountains and most active volcanoes. Time and again, they erupt and poison the rivers. Scientists have only just begun to piece together what might have happened nearly 2,000 years ago, when one race of salmon faced the death of their natal river and were forced back to the open ocean on an exceptional adventure. D